OSU Libraries' Catalog Goes Mobile

The Oregon State University Libraries have launched a new online catalog for mobile devices that enables students, faculty and other users to search the catalog from their mobile or smart phones. Users visiting the library website from a mobile device will be automatically directed to http://m.library.oregonstate.edu/ the mobile site.

"Students are always connected and on the go," says Karyle Butcher, the OSU Donald and Delpha Campbell University Librarian. "Our new mobile services are one more way for OSU Libraries to engage our users in ways that work for them."

The mobile catalog is the latest addition to the Libraries' mobile site, which was released in March 2009. OSU Libraries are the first in the Oregon library system to develop a custom mobile catalog and among the nation's leaders in doing so, as well.

The new catalog allows patrons to search for library materials by keyword, title, author, call number, and ISBN. When a patron finds an item in the mobile catalog, she can then email the record to herself or text the call number to her cell phone. Other features include the ability to search course reserves, limit searches to a specific library branch (Valley Library, Guin Library, and the OSU Cascades library), and set the number of results per search.

For more information please visit http://library.oregonstate.edu/about_mobile.